What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Stokowski- Philadelphia Rarities. The Philadelphia Orchestra/Leopold Stokowski.

[Operafreak]

Bach : The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2- Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano)

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams: Job
Holst: The Perfect Fool Ballet Music
- a fabulous disc with marvellous performances of both works by the two friends:

[Traverso]

Luc Ferrari

[vandermolen]

[Mirror Image]

Vaughan Williams: Job
Holst: The Perfect Fool Ballet Music
- a fabulous disc with marvellous performances of both works by the two friends:

My favorite performance of Job without a doubt. Marvelous, indeed!

NP:

Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 6 in E minor
Dona Nobis Pacem
Blanche Christensen (soprano), William Metcalf (baritone)
Utah Symphony Orchestra, University of Utah Civic Chorale
Abravanel

[Todd]

[Karl Henning]

Vaughan Williams: Job
Holst: The Perfect Fool Ballet Music
- a fabulous disc with marvellous performances of both works by the two friends:

You remind me I should give The Perfect Fool a fresh listen. I simply have no recollection of it.

[Linz]

Brahms Piano Pieces Op. 116-119 with Hélène Grimaud

[Mirror Image]

You remind me I should give The Perfect Fool a fresh listen. I simply have no recollection of it.

I think you'll dig it, Karl. More colorful Holst.

[Traverso]

Debussy


Rhapsodie pour orchestre et clarinette principale


George Pieterson  clarinet

​Concertgebouw Orchestra

​Bernard Haitink

[Traverso]

Scott Joplin


Joshua Rifkin

[vandermolen]

I think you'll dig it, Karl. More colorful Holst.

I agree. Many years ago it was used in a very innovative film (made by a Film School student) about the Belgian Surrealist painter René Magritte. I was v pleased to find it online - here is Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbIIAzwamNw

[vandermolen]

My favorite performance of Job without a doubt. Marvelous, indeed!

NP:

Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 6 in E minor
Dona Nobis Pacem
Blanche Christensen (soprano), William Metcalf (baritone)
Utah Symphony Orchestra, University of Utah Civic Chorale
Abravanel

Another great VW disc, combining two of his greatest works in fine performances under Abravanel.

[Lisztianwagner]

Béla Bartók
Music for string, percussion and celesta

[Linz]

Karl Bohm with Brahms Symphony No. 3, Richard Strauss Four Last Songs with Lisa Della Casa and Three Von Weber's Overtures

[Karl Henning]

I agree. Many years ago it was used in a very innovative film (made by a Film School student) about the Belgian Surrealist painter René Magritte. I was v pleased to find it online - here is Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbIIAzwamNw

Thanks, Jeffrey, will watch later. Now:

Holst
Suite from The Perfect Fool, Op. 39
LSO
Previn

[Mandryka]

Listening to the first CD of Kooiman's AoF for Coronata, which I'm very happy to have received today. It seems wonderfully noble, strong and gentle, and humane.  Lyrical too, with long singing phrases.

(Cpt 4 playing now - very intense playing.)

[Karl Henning]

Holst
Suite from The Perfect Fool, Op. 39
LSO
Previn

Well, listened to it twice in a row. Love it. (And I should not be surprised.)

[Karl Henning]

https://www.youtube.com/v/GnkU7k64K4Q

I owe Holst an apology: this is exactly the sort of fare which fits CRB's "Classical Lite" mission, and I've made the mistake of casting the blame at the composer's feet. (Might as well dock Bach for all the use they make of that one Orchestral Suite ....)
I'm still a little disappointed (cannot help it) that the fourth movement is an arrangement of a number from the F Major Military Band Suite, but that disappointment is really a wish that he might have written more.